Lauchs

The rpg munchkin in me hopes polyglot misleading includes computer languages.

Creature Commandos has been hitting that sweet spot for me. Admittedly, I love gypsy punk, gratuitous cartoon violence and bizzarely heartbreaking stories.

I'd love to see James Gunn's personal musical favourites for the year.

I just don't think your position holds up under its own assumptions.

First, you require an Egypt that is simultaneously terrified of Israel but also blockades the Strait of Tiran for no obvious strategic or economic purpose. Yes, Israel was a part of the winning side in the previous war but also had significant British and French help.

Yes, Israel was fully mobilized, because Egypt had just crossed a line that Israel said was an act of war. Having neighbours on all sides who occasionally try to invade and murder all your people will also make you more willing to mobilize quickly, especially when about 1/3 of all Jews had just been murdered.

It just boggles the imagination that someone could look at the following facts and say "yeah, Israel started this.":

A) Egypt, against maritime and international law (as brokered by the UN) and the terms of its previous peace deal, blockaded Israel from a major port. Israel declares (as per the terms of the peace treaty and Israel's stated position) that this is an act of war.

B) Egypt then along with several neighbours deploys, along multiple borders, an army that outmans, outguns and outplanes (okay, has air superiority but that doesn't work as well with the pattern!) Israel by a 2:1 ratio and 3:1 in the serious stuff (armour/planes.)

C) Israel on the night of the attack is alone, without allies or material support.

I cannot imagine you are seriously saying that despite all the facts on the ground, the correct course of action for Israel was to wait until being engaged and then just pray that this time things worked out for the Jews? That's just wild to me. "Sorry kids, sure, we saw all those soldiers massing but we really thought the Jews were only due one massacre per half century. Whoopsies!"

Oh my! I had just thought about bringing them up in conversation but you just upped the game!

Oh neat, thanks for sharing!

I don't actually care about downvotes or upvotes for comments (for posts, I'm generally trying to make communities laugh, so I do like them there to refine my approach etc.)

I'm more just... Well, it's Lemmy, some of the replies are, uhhh, impressive and heartbreaking (not because they're mean, it just makes me wonder about how we win a majority of votes while being associated with some goddamn crazy people.)

Anyway, really appreciate you sharing this, I'll probably use some of these settings!

And just like Poland in 1939, Israel was threatened by an amassing, significantly larger force.

As a lot of Jews died in ~~Israel~~ Poland, I'm pretty sure the costs of waiting until the other side attacks were absorbed, heavily, by Israelis.

I think nuclear standoffs are categorically different, the entire MAD doctrine depends on the impossibility of a first strike.

At the end of the day, Egypt and the other Arab states took a series of recklessly aggressive steps against a rightfully paranoid and numerically inferior opponent. (And it's not like Egypt was seriously threatened by Israel when they started massing with multiple Arab states, the previous war had been fought with heavy UK/French support after the Egyptians again acted pretty recklessly.)

Edit: A country? Crossed it out above as I should own up to a silly typo like that.

These are so good, thanks for making them!

How so?

So your position is they should have waited until the massed armies that outnumbered them 2:1 attacked?

That seems like an insane demand to thrust upon a people who had years earlier been murdered on an industrial scale.

Thanks, I basically agree with you.

Like most of the tragic collective action problems (phones, climate change, sweatshops etc) I'm just trying to moderate as best I can for my own soul/health and try not to be too sad about it.

A lot of those are problems caused by phones regardless of whether one uses one themselves.

But for the personal ones, there are self aware addicts of all kinds. Smokers know cigarettes are killing them, complain about them, sometimes even hate them but can't stop.

Edit: pair o words

I think the logic is that a low birth rate is bad for the state. To harm the state makes one an anti-socialist.